Maths Like A Pirate - Day 4

Can you build a tower without a hammer and nails?
We are taking up the challenge of building the tallest tower using only marshmallows, toothpicks and collaboration. Chocolate fish to the best collaborators and the tallest tower.

Maths Like a Pirate for Skippers

This week Skippers will be collaborating whilst doing some Maths Like a Pirate challenges. Here is them building a pirate ship to hold all their treasure - "argh me hearties!"

The Joy of Star Wars

At Maths time we are learning using Star Wars cards. We are picking 2 cards and adding them together, or taking them away. We are also learning to order numbers by picking 5 cards and putting them in order from the smallest to the biggest and biggest to the smallest.

Shape My World

Miss Eve asked us to challenge ourselves. We were only allowed to use 10 or less shapes to make a picture. 

Next time we're going to do a specific picture of someone in our community to link with our concept. 

"I made a little ship. They are the boosters at the bottom and they have three windscreens. It goes to Australia." - Toby

Here are some other examples:

Nikau's Numbers

I am making phone numbers. Then I'm making phones. I am going to play games with them. 

Measuring with non-standard units

Phoenix: I measured a whiteboard, it was 7 paper clips long.